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The Tattered Cover is a venerable independent bookstore with three locations in the Greater Denver area. Author autographings and literary happenings are standard fare at the Tattered Cover, with writers as wide-ranging as Daniel Handler and Annie Proulx, Barack Obama and Newt Gingrich, Christopher Moore and Susan Sontag, Armistead Maupin and Anne Rice, Hunter Thompson and Joyce Carol Oates, Ursula K. Le Guin and Ishmael Beah, Terry Pratchett and Chuck Palahniuk, Mary Oliver and Christopher Paolini.
Owner Joyce Meskis, a courageous defender of free expression and reader privacy, has won numerous awards for promoting literacy and defending against those who would restrict what we read and what we think, including the Privacy International Brandeis Award, the PEN/Newman Award, The Authors Guild of America Award, the William J. Brennan Jr. Award, and the American Library Associations Freedom of Expression Award.